His Wikipedia article has a quote from him: “A broken string was not an option. It was wicked cold.”
I don’t know what the exact temperature and humidity was in D.C., but I think it is a given that it was very cold and very dry, neither of which are conductive to singing. I’m not defending her (I fast-forwarded through her performance) but I can understand why she did it. I blame the Twentieth Amendment, which moved it from March 4th, an altogether more congenial time of year.
More details here. The Marine Corps Band always records a performance ahead of time just in case, and everyone records their music ahead of time. Supposedly she used the recording because she hadn’t had time to rehearse with the full band, not because of the weather.
Really, it’s been shown that? Heck we’ve known that..it used to be an unsaid obvious way of life. Then networks got this great idea that the American people wanted to know what was happening all around the world - filling newspapers and television with sound and images of doom and gloom.
A lot of good that accomplished, as now they’ve had to take surveys and realized as you say that the general public does not want to wake up to information about atrocities.
Well no sh…
If it doesn’t directly concern said country (America in this example) then what the heck does it matter? Maybe if America wasn’t so involved in other people’s business there’d be nothing to report!
I’d rather it be a slow news day with Beyonce’s lip synching at the headline, than some ‘news’ with images about dismembered children found after a refugee hospital bombing in Africa by African rebels whom we supplied with weapons in order to defend invasion from a waring tribe only a few years before of which we had no requirement to do so and cost us not only resources and money, but now has indirectly resulted in the death of children while furthering a renegade genocide agenda.
I watch about 20 minutes of news in the morning, long enough to get traffic and weather. I choose my station because the weatherman is personable and the traffic girl comely (both anchors are douche-bags who I often have to turn off). Both of these stories were carried in that 20 minutes.
You wouldn’t happen to have been watching Fox 5 in NYC, would you?
On the other hand, NPR didn’t waste time arguing whether one was Team Nicki or Team Mariah for 10 minutes, nor did they have a football player who could barely read the copy doing the sports, then pimping some social networking site he’s trying to launch.
That’s just because you’re a heartless person who doesn’t care about others FREEZING TO DEATH!!1! in the APOCALYPTIC WAVE Of COLD!!1!!
It hit 3 degree Fahrenheit here last night, the coldest night we’ve had yet this winter. Of course, in many winters we’d have already had at least one night of -20 F, so this is a warmer-than average winter so far, but you wouldn’t know that from the way the media is carrying on.
Reporting real news takes work, is expensive, and can even be dangerous. No wonder they stick with drivel.
The media loves to fixate on the same 3 or 4 stories and run them into the ground as long as they can.
Personally I don’t see how lip-synching is a good thing, but I’m not going to lose any sleep over it or care enough to watch more than 30 seconds of news about it.